Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week's show: Long-time activist for working women Ellen Bravo talks about the history – and future -- of paid family leave, and we visit with Hardball Press publisher Tim Sheard about why working class culture matters. Plus the late great Aretha Franklin! American photographer Lewis Hine born in Oshkosh, Wisc. His powerful photographs showing kids at work were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States. When Hine was commissioned to document the construction of the Empire State Building, he photographed the workers in precarious positions while they secured the steel framework of the structure, taking many of the same risks that the workers endured.- 1874 Two African-American sharecroppers are killed during an ultimately unsuccessful cotton-pickers’ strike in Lee County, Ark. By the time the strike had been suppressed, 15 African-Americans had died and another six had been imprisoned. A White plantation manager was killed as well - 1891 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services Union City Radio
Weekdays, 7:15am WPFW-FM 89.3 or click here CSA Golf Tournament: POSTPONED (tentative new date 10/1) Mon, September 24, 8am – 4pm Enterprise Golf Course, 2802 Enterprise Rd, Mitchellville, MD 20721 Labor to Labor 2018: AFL-CIO HQ phonebank (battleground states) Mon, September 24, 11am – 5pm AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 (Lewis Room) SNAP-Sisters Not Afraid of Power-GOTV (panel discussion) Mon, September 24, 12pm – 2pm AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 Marx in Soho (1-man show) Mon, September 24, 6:30pm – 9:00pm Busboys and Poets, 5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD 20781 Film: Dolores Mon, September 24, 7pm – 9pm University Christian Church, 6800 Adelphi Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782 The campaign to save Providence continued last week even as the hospital moved forward with plans to shut down in early December. Hospital advocates — including union and community supporters — met with DC City Council members late in the week while Ward 5 councilmember Kenyan McDuffie went door-to-door in neighborhoods around the hospital urging residents to turn out for the October 10 Council hearing on the closing. “Ascension’s decision to close the hospital will not only be devastating to the doctors, nurses and all medical workers, who have committed themselves to serve, but the community as well,” said Wanda Shelton-Martin, Executive Director of Metropolitan District 1199 DC NUHHCE, AFSCME. “This flight must be fought by all, the community, the workers and our elected leaders.” The coalition is asking supporters to participate in their action tomorrow by calling DC City Council members and and demanding they tell Ascension: “Fix It, Don’t Close It: Save Providence Hospital.” Click here for details and Council member contact info. photo: McDuffie (center) at the Sept. 13 community meeting to save Providence; photo by Natasha Acevedo The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO and The United States Postal Service have agreed to extend the deadline for contract negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement for thirty days to October 20, 2018. The current collective bargaining agreement between the APWU and USPS expired at midnight September 20, 2018. The APWU represents approximately 200,000 postal workers across the country -- including in the APWU Montgomery County Area Local (#3630) and APWU Nation’s Capital and Southern MD Local -- in the clerk, maintenance, motor vehicle service and support services divisions of the Postal Service.
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